Rev. Deanna

“...designed to help local governments prepare for and adapt to the growing effects of #ClimateChange. When that commitment is broken, it puts people’s safety, homes and futures at risk.” - Jill Habig, Public Rights Project

#TheRealCost
One of the most significant airlifts in #Alaska history

"For decades, medical institutions in the United States have normalized collaboration with violence." @eric-reinhart.com

#Abolition is also a healthcare issue...
#healthcare is also an abolition issue...

"The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic." @theferocity.bsky.social

maybe both. For sure, #systemic

A Series: The Role of Power in Racial Justice — GatherFor If as Resmaa Menakem says, “it is inside our bodies where this conflict needs to be resolved,” what is this conflict?

"...Ibram Kendi’s assertion — powerful people trying to keep their disproportionate amount of power from others — shows up everywhere in our history and is perhaps a reason why we are still living in a society of tremendous inequality." -Teju Ravilochan

gatherfor.org/blog/power-i...

Louisiana has lost more than 2,000 square miles of coast since 1932, according to the 2023 Coastal Master Plan. Scientists say the marsh is dying because it stopped receiving the nutrient-rich fresh water and sediment once levees were built to control flooding along the Mississippi-Wesley Muller
#CJ

Thursday October 16 2025 The US Government is still shutdown. Democrats in congress want to both ensure heathcare prices do not double as people sign up for open enrollment starting next month, and get assurances Trump will stop unilaterally claw back funds from congressional appropriations. He's both outright ignored congressional budgets, and had the GOP use a simple majority to make cuts undoing deals previously negotiated breaking down trust. Dems want any deal to include legislation that would prevent Trump from overriding Congress and undoing any deal. Jonn Bolton, former Trump National security Advisor, was indicted for mishandling classified information. The investigation began during Biden’s term and continued under Trump. He emailed notes and state secrets to accounts that were later hacked into by Iran. He wanted to write a book with the material. Head of the US Military's Southern command is stepping down. Adm. Alvin Holsey has overseen recent strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela and is leaving the 3 year command post early. It is unclear if he is being pushed out for being Black or choosing to retire due to the mission's unauthorized strikes.

Drawing of the Day:
Government shutdown continues, Trump’s former National Security Advisor is indicted, and the head of US Military’s Southern Command steps down

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

"It’s some of the states that have claimed to be the strongest supporters of human rights defenders ... that are most often repressing climate activists and where the right to protest is being denigrated and delegitimized." @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When empire tries to drown us under a "tidal wave of lies" - t/y @emptywheel.bsky.social

#AllCommunityResponse
#FourthEstate

"In other words, it is not just the heat. It is inequality – who has access to shelter, healthcare, money and social support – that often determines who lives and who dies." - @ninalakhani.bsky.social

#ClimateJusticeForAll

Banning trans healthcare for 18yos is velociraptors testing the fences. Since the bans include both minors and adults, there's nothing really stopping them from setting the age at 21 or 25 or 50. But mainstream media outlets continue to publish inaccurate headlines that misinform their reaaders.

"Resolving misunderstandings and conflicts is a fundamental part of resistance."

"The annual operating cost of Alligator Alcatraz, with some 1,000 employees, is estimated at $450 million."

#FollowTheMoney
#WhoProfitsFromSuffering

we must love each other and support each other, beloveds

Success for whom? Twenty years of school reform. | The Lens Twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans school reforms left Black students facing closures, instability, and lost community educators.

"The loss of community-rooted Black educators has severed critical bonds between schools and families." -Ashana Bigard and Elizabeth K. Jeffers @thelensnola.bsky.social
thelensnola.org/2025/10/07/s...

#AlwaysAskWhoBenefitsWhoSuffers

"What we have lost track of is that #faith is not an excuse for your failings, whether that is bigotry or bullying. Faith is simply an invitation to be better." - Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

YouTube video by Susan Werner (SW) Susan Werner - i set this poem to music.

Keep speaking out when you can, beloveds

youtu.be/XJcdnwSdwDQ?...

"The physician, who declined to be identified out of fear of losing their job, said the Navy facility “wasn’t designed or developed to save lives. It was just to desensitize people to the trauma.”

on a pink, purple and blue watercolor background, in black typefaces, the words "Part of how chaos gains power is that when we are overwhelmed or threatened, we need someplace to put that charge and too often, we send it towards each other." Susan Raffo

PSA for those of us sending suffering towards our beloveds instead of towards undoing the systems of oppression...

In case we were confused - ICE IS part of the problem.

#AbolishICE
#HumansDeserveHumaneTreatment
#MigrationIsAHumanRight

"...as we recently learned with Zachary Mueller, authoritarian movements require #othering and villains to sustain themselves. We reject this impulse." @uusj.bsky.social

"...dozens of civilian boats filled with humanitarian aid for Gaza, including baby formula, medicine, and prosthetic limbs. As a result of Israel’s genocide, Gaza has the largest population of child amputees per capita in the world." @truthout.org

Sit with that.
#EndTheGenocide

She Cried “Mexicanas!” First. What Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic Grito means for Mexico — and what it could mean for us, too.

Sheinbaum is not tinkering at the edges. She is rebuilding the foundation of the state to serve those who’ve been ignored for too long.
alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-...

Please support by Tuesday!!!!
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#WorthyNow

One Week I presented the poem at the bottom of this post (“They”) at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly on June 20, 2025. I had written it…

"...So, they are counting on you
To care more about them
Less about yourself
And not at all about me
They are counting on you to always leave part of yourself behind." - Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer
medium.com/@adamlawrenc...

#DisappointThem
#ChooseLove
#WeAllGetFreeOrNoneOfUsAreFree

...
May we continue
to reach for
the roots of our ancestors
and remain the healthy seeds
of the ones
yet to be fed…
the ones yet
to be born. ... - @revalexation.bsky.social

#OpenHeartPrayer

Team Affiliated Ministers Overcoming Isolation with Beloved CommunityYour gift helps build sacred connectionIsolation is not an accident — it’s a core feature of the carceral system. Incarcerated people are deliberately cut of...

I’m fundraising for the CLF Worthy Now Prison Ministry! Nearly 2,000 UUs experiencing incarceration depend on this life-saving connection of worship, care, and community.

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#WorthyNow

Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of Daca recipient: ‘No legal basis’ Border patrol arrested Catalina Santiago, who had been granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August

The administration is #QuietlyKillingDACA.

ICE and CBP unlawfully detain immigrant youth—including valid DACA recipients like Xóchitl and Paulo. We demand accountability.

#HomeIsHere #ProtectDACA

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo 44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

“The administration is using the system to make it as prohibitively cruel as it possibly can for the people going through.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
#StopDisappearingPeople
#AbolishICE